NFL owners may end tuck rule, amend replays

Summary of 15 articles · Updated Mar 21, 2013

But under the Tuck Rule, it was still considered a forward pass. It’s much too late for the Raiders, but the Tuck Rule has been wiped out. 19, 2002, game is also known as the "Tuck Rule" game because on a play late in the fourth quarter it appeared Patrio… (more)ts quarterback Tom Brady fumbled after being hit by the Raiders' Charles Woodson. The NFL owners meeting opens Monday in Phoenix with a couple of controversial adjustments. Eleven years after Tom Brady got an incomplete pass instead of a fumble on what was a great play by the Oakland Raiders' Charles Woodson, the competition committee thought it was time for a change.Closure? Probably not. Some wounds never heal. The events of Jan.

NFL owners overwhelmingly rescind ‘tuck rule’

On Wednesday, NFL owners voted overwhelmingly to strike the tuck rule from the books. From now on, if a passer loses possession of the ball while trying to bring it back into his body, it is a fumble, not an incomplete pass.

Charles Woodson played a pivotal role in the play that made the Tuck Role famous and he was happy to see the rule die on Wednesday. “Hallelujah,” Woodson said during an interview with the NFL Network. “It shouldn’t have taken this long. It’s bee

Tuck rule is no longer

NFL owners eliminate ‘Tuck Rule’, approve all proposed rules changes

NFL owners approved all six of the rule changes proposed by the Competition Committee, votes that eliminated the "Tuck Rule" and the implementation of a rule making it illegal for ball-carriers and tacklers to lead with the crown of their helm…

Both tuck rule abstentions trace to tuck rule game

It was fitting that the Patriots and Redskins abstained on the vote to eliminate the tuck rule. After all, the Patriots were the team that benefitted from the correct application of a bad rule in the 2001 playoffs, with the reversal of a sack-fumble by …